Musicalizing the Heart Sutra: Buddhism, Sound, and Media in Contemporary Japan
In Japan, explicitly religious content is not commonly found in popular music. Against this mainstream tendency, since approximately 2008, ecclesiastic and non-ecclesiastic actors alike have made musical arrangements of the Heart Sutra. What do these musical arrangements help us to understand about...
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Year: 2021, Volume: 12, Issue: 9 |
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B Music B Media B Japanese modernity B Secularism B Buddhist ethics |
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